Cutting-pliers.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

H. F. KELLEMEN. CUTTING PLIERS. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8, 1906.

WITNE8 was I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY F. KELLEMEN, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO UTIOA DROP FORGE & TOOL COMPANY, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

CUTTING-PLIERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Application filed November 8, 1906. Serial No. 342,448.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IENRY F. KELLEMEN, of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compound Cuttin Pliers; and I do hereby declare that the to lowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

The object of my resent invention is to provide an improvec construction of com pound cutting pliers, wherein provision is made for reducing to a minimum the cost of constructing the parts and the cost of assembling the same, and which pliers are strong and efiicient and capable of being conveniently taken apart to sharpen, repair or otherwise, and have an open throat, and side plates into and through which wire or other material to be out can be inserted to any length desired.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows a side elevation of my im roved pliers, with the jaws and lever handl in open osition. Fig. 2 shows the same with one o the side plates removed and the bolts shown in section. Fig. 3 shows the same as Fig. 2, with parts in closed position. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the complete pliers. Fig. 5 shows a section on line AB of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section showing particularly how a wire may be assed throu h the throat and side plate.

eferring to the reference-letters and figures in a more particular description, 22 indicates the cutting jaws, which include the lever portions 2, which lever portions are preferably thinner and plate-like parts and beveled as to their contiguous edges. The rear ends of the lever parts 2 are provided with sockets 2 which receive the ball joint 3 of the lever handles 3. The pivoted ends 3 of the lever handle 3 are of the same thickness as the lever parts 2 of the jaws, and include sockets which receive the connectin roller 4 and rovide stop shoulders 5 and 6 at either si e of these sockets. The side plates 6 receive the jaw levers 2 and pivoted ends of the lever handle 3 therebetween, and the plates are held together and pivots provided for the jaws 2 by the bolts 7 and for the lever handle 3 by the bolts 8. The center portions of the plates 6 are cut out as indicated at 9, whereby provision is made for inserting a wire or piece of material through the throat between the jaws and levers and out through said opening, as shown in Fig. 6, and the operation of the working parts may be better observed, any chip or piece readily dislodged or expelled, and the position of the inner end of a piece of wire or material inserted down the throat of the pliers may be observed. The beveled edges on the levers 2 serve to direct a wire inserted through the throat out at the side through the opening 6.

It will be noted that the rear ends of the plates 6 are of such shape and so positioned that they will confine the connecting roller 4 from lateral displacement, no matter whether It W111 be noted that the jaws 2 with their lever portions 2 are duplicate parts that the lever handles 3 are duplicate parts, and that the side plates 6 are duplicate parts, and the four bolts employed are also duplicates, and these parts constitute substantially the whole of the pliers. This, among other things, enables me to construct the liers at a minimum cost from good materia and still produce a plier that is efiicient and substantial.

It will be noted that by tightenin the bolts 7 and 8, the side plates 6 may be c osed in with more or less tension, whereby the working parts are held closely and accurately and there is no looseness either in the original construction or from wear, which is often an objectionable feature in pliers of this class.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination in a compound cutting pliers of a pair of jaw levers having transversely arranged jaws at their ends, a pair of hand levers joined to the jaw levers respectively and connected for simultaneous action, side plates between which the jaw levers and the connecting ends of the hand levers are located'and' in which the said levers are sev- In witness whereof, I have affixed my sigerally pivoted with the jaw levers spaced at nature, in presence of two witnesses, this 6th the pivots to afford a passage and the side day of, November 1906.

plates having openings 9 arranged to afforda HENRY F. KELLEMEN. passage for the introduction of a wire be- Witnesses: tween the jaw levers and out throughthe S. I. DE VINE,

jaws, substantially as set forth. E. S. HESSE. 

